solace chapter 12
Korunue frowns. "a vacation won't work... the problem is me... " a new thought hits her. "so I should be the one to do something about it." she kisses Ronin's cheek, whispering softly in his ear: "I love you, no matter what." Then she stands, though not without some effort. She closes her eyes, holding out her good arm to the side, bent at the elbow. "Jenny!" she calls, with her mind as well as her voice. "Come to me!"
Ronin gasps and reaches up with his good arm, clutching at Korunue's back. "Don't do that. I don't want that demon around you!"
It was too little too late. The large black bird landed on Kor's arm, and she smiled a little at it. She takes a deep breath, screwing up her courage. "Jenny... you have been a good friend to me, full of advice, always there when I was lonely. You always had advice to give me when I needed it." she begins, slowly, hesitantly. The bird preens itself, standing up straighter, looking proud, almost smirking.
Ronin growls and stands up, reaching for his dagger, and not finding one. He grumbles at himself as he realizes that Kor had tossed them away. He looks at the bird and bristles with anger. "Stupid demon." he says reaching towards the bird.
Korunue glances behind her, her look telling Ronin to stay put, to hold on, to trust her. "But..." she begins.
Ronin looks at Korunue and grimaces as he remembers his hurt arm. He snrals and backs off, cradlign his arm per usual.
Korunue takes a deep breath and starts again. "But. Your advice... I think I need to handle this myself from now on. Too much advice... well, I need to do some things myself, to learn some lessons the hard way I think. So, though I appreciate the comfort you lended me, I would like you to leave me alone, and not offer any more advice. Surely someone else can benifit from your advice more than I." With that she moves her arm straight up, to launch the bird into the air.
Ronin smiles a little as he hears Korunue get rid of the demon. "Good riddance." he mutters under his breath.
The bird, however, does NOT simply fly off, but instead flutters to the ground a foot or two away. At the speed of thought she is gone, replaced by a tall woman wearing a plain black dress. She has purple skin and red-brown hair, with large skin-covered batlike wings, that when spread must be at least a 6 ft wingspan. She had claws for finger- and toenails, and pointed teeth. She sneers. "Do you know who I am?" she asks, evilly.
Ronin looks up at the woman and blinks before sneering at her. "Thats easy. You're a demon bitch."
"jenny" growls, savagly. "I. am DEMONA! I answer to no mortal!" she screeches, spreading her massive wings. She ignores Ronin, sneering at Kor. "More than that, I am your mother's true reincarnation. SHE would never want a sissy sap like you for her reincarnation. She sent me to finish you off!" she sneers showing fangs for teeth.
Ronin looks at Demona and laughs. "You're no reincarnation of anything. Well maybe a succubus or something. But certainly not some human. Go find someone else to lie to and leave us alone."
Korunue turns white, then colors. The anger... she couldn't fight it any longer. She began to glow purple, snarling at Demona. "how. DARE. you. how DARE you bring my mother into this! Go away, and don't come back! Leave me alone!" she is screaming in rage by the end, and Demona looks slightly perplexed, not expecting THIS reaction. She sneers anyways. "Make me."
Ronin grins at Demona "Alright, if you insist." He says, drawing his sword and grinning. His arm didn't hurt so much now, and if he died protecting Kor, then it would be an honor. "You ready?" he sneers back at Demona.
Korunue pushes Ronin out of the way, furious, but knowing what her temper would do... she felt herself slipping... "how DARE YOU! Leave, and don't come back! Now! Leave now! NOW!" angrier and angrier, glowing more and more. Suddanly, her eyes glowed purple, then turned deep brown, and her cries became less angry, more cold and mocking. "how dare you. Leave me alone." She laughs, cruelly. "Really... I don't know whether to thank you or kill you." Her voice was different, too... a little... but familier still.
Ronin stumbles and trips over a treeroot, he glares at Korunue for a second, then changes his focus back on the demon.
Korunue smirks at the shocked look on Demona's face. "Thank you for doing my job, or kill you for doing it too well. So I'll do both." She snaps her fingers, and a bow and an arrow appears in her hand: Kor's Yuni, and one of her arrows. She bows, makeing a mockary of the Japanese guesture. "Domo Arigato." Then she loads the bow and aims it at Demona. "Goodbye." The string seemed to draw back of it's own accord, the bow held by Kor's good arm in place to aim with, her useless one by her side. The arrow fired itself, seemingly....
Ronin sits on the ground, perfectly stunned. Where had this Korunue come from? What happened to the old Korunue?
Demona suddanly dissapears, and the arrow hits a tree. A small black squirrel races off into the treetops. "Kor" turned to Ronin then, smirking. "As for you... well. Hmm... I really SHOULD kill you. That will secure my reign... yes, that will work nicely." She summons another arrow, and fiddles with it casually. "Or, I could torture you to death first... that will be fun."
Ronin struggles to his feet and glares at this new Kor. "And who might you be, and what have you done with Kor?" he says, sheathign hsi sword and reaching into a pouch. He pulls out a small root and sticks it in his mouth, chewing on it slowly. "And why might you kill me?"
Korunue drops the bow, lifting her good hand and sending a wave of Kor's own power at Ronin, intending to push him against a tree. She smirks as ropes come from nowhere, tying him to the tree. "Because. Then the bitch will stop fighting me, and I can torment her at my leasure. She will pay dearly for the sins of her father!" She seems rather upset.
Ronin grunts as he is tied to the tree. He struggles and twists, grimacing as his ribs and arm catch against the ropes. glaring at Kor he snarls. "What have you done with her?" he doesn't give her time to answer and spits the juice in his mouth at her eyes. Trying to get the burnt marbu to hit her and blind her.
Korunue ducks the juice, then cackles. "Oh, a fiesty one. Try anthing else and I won't move. Go ahead, kill your precious Korunue. See if I care. I can find someone else to torment..." she does not seem to notice the juice hit her back. It burnt, but she didn't care. At all. If she even felt it. She smirks, using some of her own dead miko powers to try and coax his own sword from his sheath to her hand.
(a/n- Guess who stole Korunue's body? =) )
Ronin roars at her. "Let her go! Let her go! KOR!!!!" he screams thrashing again. Not caring about his arm or ribs. "Oh hell no, not my sword." he says, moving his broken arm over it as best he can. He knows he couldnt hold it if she really wanted it, but he can try.
Kikyo/Korunue tugs harder with her power, taking the sword in her good hand. She tests it, feeling the weight of it, then smirks and attempts a kick to Ronin's groin to shut him up. "As if anything you say will make the slightest difference to me. She won't fight me if you're dead." she says, cackling.
Ronin twists and growls, Kor's kick catching his thigh. "Bitch." he says spitting at her again, using the other half of the root still in his mouth.
Kikyo bows her head, burning the top of her head. She laughs. "that's not nice. I need those eyes. And so does Korunue. Or have you forgotten her?" she backs away, hefting the sword. She smirks, then her grin falters. She frowns. "What..." then laughs again. "How cute! The bitch wants to bargin her body for your freedom!" she laughs and laughs, an evil laugh. "How sweet. How futile."
Ronin starts twisting in his bonds. "KOR! Don't do it! It's not worth it Kor!" he says panting heavily and grimacing.
Kikyo cackles. "Oh, but it is. That's just what I want." she smirks. "Ah yes... I can get revenge so much easier with a body than without. And I can end up with her dead... or in an asylum... and STILL use her for revenge on her father! Oh, sweet vengance... do we have a deal, bitchling?" She waits for some mental response.
Ronin snarls and roars in rage. "Don't do it Kor!!!" he scareams. Struggling with the ropes he curses at himself, why had he let Kor throw his daggers away? If he had even one he could get lose....bt wait, maybe his claws, and teeth! He starts to law at the ropes with hsi good hand, and gnaw on the ropes as best he can. Slowly they start to fray.
Kikyo frowns at Ronin. "Fine. So be it. I don't need you're death anyway. Begone." With a wave of her hand she disperses the ropes, dissmissing him. She smirks, flipping up into a tree, rejoicing in the strength of her new body. And the peace... she couldn't maintain the body for long, but she'd get it tied up somewhere when she wasn't using it, to make sure Kor couldn't escape.
Ronin stumbles and looks around. He snarls and jumps after her. "GET BACK HERE!!!" he roars. Hopefully she would be unused to the new body and unsure how to use it completely, besides Kor is weaker than him and not near as fast.
Kikyo wonders what Ronin could do to her without hurting Kor, and comes up with nothing. Well, the deal was to let him go... no! the deal was not to kill him! So she could knock him out and torture him until he killed himself... She ignored the feeble protests from the back of her mind and came to a halt in a clearing, Ronin's sword in hand.
Ronin leaps after Kor. He stops when she does, himself still well away from the clearing. This is not a time to approach head on. Sliently he crawls around in the trees, making his way behind her. He studies her for a second, hoping she hadnt heard him and then leaps, aiming to tackle her and trap her in his arms.
Korunue hears something... but thinks it to be a squirrel. It had been so long since she had been with a youkai... she is then taken by suprise, as he tackled her from behind. The nearness of him, the tackling... reminded her of her days of being alive... she deferred to Kor's reflexes and cried silently, letting tears fall for both of them.
Ronin wraps an arm firmly around Kor's waist, pinning her good arm down, his legs wrap around hers too. "Hehe, you can't keep this up forever, whoever you are. So why don't you just give up and let Kor come back out?"
Korunue says nothing, just sobbing. She decides to toy with his emotions a little... she won't let Kor out, even a little, or she'd lose her grip on her... but she can act like Kor enough to hurt him. She searches through Kor's memories to find out what her voice sounded like so she can try and emulate it.
Ronin squeezes Kor tighter, not letting her move. "LET HER OUT!" he orders.
Korunue sobs harder, convinced she has the voice right, and tries her hand at voice mimicry. "Don't!" she cries, sounding almost exactly like Korunue... perhaps like Kor if she was under major stress... she tries a little more, not wanting to push it. "Ronin... please...." THAT should tug on his heartstrings a little.
Ronin releases his grip a little, just a little. "Kor?" he asks hesitantly "Kor, is that you?"
Korunue sniffles, turning her head away. She says nothing, not wanting to push it. She just sobs, Kikyo's tears as much as Korunue's.
Ronin tightens his grip again. "I said, let her go!" he snarls firmly. "You can't fool me trying to act like Kor."
"So keep her here for eternity. I don't feel the pain, though you can bet she does. Anything you do to me will only hurt her. And she knows if she fights me, I'll kill you. So she's mercifully silent: her cries were annoying me." Her voice changes to a mockary of Kor's: "Oh, don't hurt him, please, leave him alone, take me instead." it changes back. "Pathetic."
Sinai is walking slowly through the forest, trying to find Korunue and Ronin, hoping they're okay, having watched them through the night, but having had to go home and sleep too.
Ronin growls, low and deep. "I can lay here like this for longer than Kor's body can hold out. Besides she can take a little pain. She's part youkai isn't she?"
Sinai hears Ronin, and walks toward him, wondering what's going on...She finds him gripping Korunue in a tight embrace, holding her down, keeping her from moving. " What's going on?" She doesn't like the look of this...
Kikyo shrugs, or tries to. "Fine. So hold me here until something breaks. I think I'll take a snooze. Wake me when you come to your senses." She puts the body in a coma, so that Kor won't be able to take it back, and waits for Ronin to cave. In the meantime, being disembodied once more, she checks on a few other people at the same time, mainly Inu and Sinai. They interested her.
Sinai is standing over the two now, not really glaring at Ronin, but is certainly looking for an explanation
` Ronin shakes Korunue. "Kor...? KOR?!?" he says, becoming frantic. He releases her from his grip and loks up at Sinai. "She...she was possessed, then she attacked me. I just now caught her and was holding her. Waiting for her to let Kor come back. But now I don't know what she's done." He says, starting to cry again, leaning over Kor's body and staring at her.
Sinai kneels down, and places a hand on her, checking her pulse. "She's asleep, in a coma, or something..."
Korunue wakes suddanly, using some of Kor's (usually dormant) miko powers to send a wave at both of them, intending to knock them back. At the same time, she backflips into a crouch, then darts a safe distence away, cackling.
Sinai's eyes widen, and watch her run away, but she quickly follows, not liking this one bit.
Ronin falls over, quite easily. He growls and struggles to his feet. "Damn you, you bitch!" he screams immediately giving chase.
Sinai leaps around trees, calling upon her lycanthrope abilities to do so, running fast, trying to catch up with her, seeing her a little ways ahead of her, a deep-set frown on her face, but is silent.
Korunue grabs the sword she dropped and pulls it on them, turning. She sends another wave, intending to push both of them against trees where her ropes will tie them securely once more. She smirks. "go ahead... kill me. Or should I say, kill Korunue. Or don't you value her life?"
Sinai leaps to the side, and tries to tackle her, hearing the words, but doesn't intend to kill her. "I willna."
Ronin is in mid leap, trying another tackle when the wave catches him, it throws him to the ground and he skids backwards on his stomach. Only stopping when his feet touch some tree roots.
Kikyo watches as the ropes tie to his ankles and to the tree roots. They then creep down from the branches to tie around his arms, jerking upward to hold him suspended in a voulnerable position. She drops into a roll, holding the sword straight out to the side, and turns on Sinai, bringing the sword in front of her. "A pity... I have no such reservations."
Ronin groans as he is raised up. His arm feeling like it is on fire. He screams at Korunue, his words unintelligible.
Sinai pulls her sword out from it's sheath at her side, and glares at her. "I willna kill ye, but by God, I will get you out of her...somehow." She stands at ready, in a defensive position, waiting for her to strike. "I care about her dearly. I willna let her go gently intae tha' good night like you want her tae."
Ronin pulls against the ropes with his good arm. "Damn you, whoever you are!" he screams at her, jerking as hard as he can.
Sinai realizes suddenly who it is. "Kikyo...I know who ye are...Korunue warned m' about ye... hen she and I had first met, she had told me about ye...She mentioned your name once, I believe, but it stuck in m' head..." She frowns deeply. "I'm glad it did, or I would ha' been as confused as Ronin o'er there."
Korunue smirks. "Quietly? No. Painfully. I want her death to be long, and slow, and agonizing... like your own." She tries once more to force her against a tree. She seems a bit shocked to hear her name spoken aloud. "Kikyo... that was my name, once, perhaps... but now it is as wind to a rock. It is meaningless. I live... for revenge." She smirks on revenge, intensifying the blast.
Sinai leaps away again. "Why? What revenge? Who must ye avenge?" She actually sympathizes with her, knowing what it is like to want revenge.
Ronin groans and gives the ropes a few more tugs. "Kikyo...." he snorts still trying to get loose.
Korunue scowls. "Her father... that damned Hanyou. how DARE he choose my reincarnation over me? he SWORE eternal love... and that damned bitch with my soul. She's dead, so I settle for her daughter. As for you..." her anger subsides once more as she turns to Ronin, sending more ropes to increase the hold. "How best to torture without killing... an interesting project..."
Ronin simply stares at her and spits at her once more, too bad he was out of reachable poison.
"Maybe it's because you're so bitter.." Sinai says.
Korunue narrows her eyes at Sinai. "You try it, and tell me who's to blame!" She rushes her, sword to the side, pointed down. She brings it up in a diagonal strike, running at Sinai, intending to take her head off in one swoop.
Sinai looks at her, still holding up her sword, and defends against it with a metallic crack/clang of her own sword, but looks sad suddenly. "I know how it must feel. My Beloved betrayed m'. I had trusted him...told him I was sorry for what I had done, and he told me it was in the past, that he wasna angry...Said he loved m'...then he killed m' wi' his own hands."
Ronin hangs his head and is silent as Sinai finishes: "But I willna let you destroy Korunue, or her Beloved."
Korunue scowls, pulling back. She glances at Ronin, wanting to torment him, to make him suffer, but knows this one will be more trouble. Better to finish this now.
Sinai growls lowly at her, and slices at her, trying to corner or move her toward Ronin, wanting to break his confinements.
Korunue blocks with Ronin's sword, then holds it still while kicking viciously out with her left foot. She also shoves with Kor's power, saving her own. A hard shove, intending with the kick and the shove to knock her against a tree to tie her up.
Sinai grunts, but digs her heels in, bracing against it, using her strength, and grabs her leg, pulling at her.
Korunue slips, thudding against the ground painfully, though she felt it not. She lifted the sword straight up above her chest. "I'll kill her." she threatens, a little scared but not showing it. "Won't hurt me one bit." she sneers. "though I can't say the same for Korunue, nor for Ronin."
Ronin grunts and doesnt appear to notice what is happening. He seems to be hanging limply by the ropes now.
Sinai grabs the handle of the sword, and tries to pull it away, at an angle so it won't plunge back down toward her, a look of utter anger and fury in her face. "Threaten all ye want. Willna d' ye
ana good."
Korunue kicks upwards at Sinai, using her momentum to get to her feet, tugging at the sword, growling a little.She jerked hard. "Then don't fight me. Take a lesson from sir macho over there." she jerks her head towards him. "Or I could always re-break her arm with my bare hands and let her bleed to death..." she smirks.
Sinai snarls, her eyes bleeding from her blue eyes to a glowing red, showing how angry she was, holding her sword in both hands. "You know ye would pass out after a while. And I wouldna allow tha' tae happen."
Korunue lets go of Ronin's sword, heading over to where he lay limp. "now, he has the right idea. Good boy. It won't save you, though... nor her. You're display earlier sealed your fate." She aimed another kick at his groin. "You could take a lesson from him, girlie." she sneers at Sinai over her shoulder. Ronin groans.
Korunue frowns, as he hangs limp in front of her. She growls softly, wanting more, almost... feeling SORRY for him! She punched him in the gut, HARD, snarling in his face and spitting in it. Then she takes his other sword and holds it at the ready.
Ronin grunts, but doesn't flinch or make any other movements for Kiky's enjoyment.
Korunue snarles, infuriated. "Damn you, react! Beg, plead, cry, scream, beg for mercy, for death, do SOMETHING!" she growls, half under her breath. She raises her right hand to slap him... and ends up stroking his cheek with one claw, a very intamate youkai guesture. She snarls and slaps him as soon as she realizes what she's doing.
Ronin turns his head with the slap and then turns back to look at her, his eyes boring holes straight into her.
"Kiky" smirks. "Oh, so THAT gets a response from mr. give-up. 'Twon't save you, though." her eyes ripple and flash a little. "From torture, I mean. I'll uphold my end of the bargain... " she smirks, and her eyes return to normal brown. She stifles a small yawn.
Ronin slowly grins at her "You can't control her much longer can you? She's struggling with you isn't she?" he says, starting to laugh at her. "You're gonna lose out in the end, you can't win!" he says, laughing hard at her now.
Kikyo smirks. "No. I shall win." She yawns once more. "But I am getting weary... " TO dash his hope, she heads to a tree a few feet away, facing Ronin, and leaps straight up in a flashy display, ropes grabbing her ankles and wrists and lashing her in tightly, tighter even than Ronin was in. Her eyes closed, and she slumped.
Ronin yells after her "You can't win!" and laughs a little more, slowly letting the laugh drift off and die.
Korunue's eyes flutter a little, but she keeps them half-shut, so he can't see that they are purple. She remains silent, half there, ready to yeild to Kikyo when she returns, slumping in her bindings, though her arm HURT. She didn't seem to notice.
Ronin sighs as he watches Korunue. "Aww Kor, You're stronger than this, why don't you fight her?" He says, tugging on the ropes again with his good arm...hmm, maybe if he pulled hard enough, he could break the branch...
Korunue takes a deep breath, looking at him. "Ronin... if you can get loose... she'll let you go eventually.... you need to leave, to run, far, far away... if I can escape without her killing you, i'll come find you... but you need to be safe..." each word is an effort as her heart silently breaks, knowing she won't be able to get free.
Ronin smirks a little "Kor, what in the world makes you think I'd leave you behind? If I get loose, you're coming with me." He says, steeling himself to tug on the branch. HE clnches his teeth and pulls, grunting. Slowly the branch starts to give, then snap, but Ronin runs out of energy before he completely breaks it.
Korunue bites her lip. "Don't... listen, either save yourself or kill me... there's no other way! She'll come back... she'll torture you... she can find me no matter where I go!" she looks frantic, eyes wide, not struggling at all.
Ronin grunts and tugs again, the branch cracking more. Finally it gives away and comes crashing down. he quickly sets to work untieing himself. "Kor, you're coming with me and thats final." he says, clawing at the ropes till they come loose. He runs over to Korunue and picks up his sword, cutting her bonds. "Lets go Kor, before old Kiky comes back."
Korunue stands back, against the tree, eyes wide. "no... Ronin... go, run.... if I come, she'll kill you... she noticed... RUN!" she screams, her eyes flashing brown. She stifles a scream, shutting her eyes tightly, biting her lower lip.
Ronin snarls and sheaths his sword, pushing himself up against Korunue he wraps his arms around her, pinning her against the tree. "Well if she comes back then I'd much rather be stuck like this, cause I'm not leaving you behind. "He says, giving her a kiss.
Korunue kisses him, then suddanly stops, eyes openening. They were brown. She snorts. "Love. Feh." She sends a blast of purple power his direction, to try and shake him off.
Ronin clenches tight to Korunue/Kikyo, if he was gonna go flying, then she was going with him.
Korunue snarles in his face. "you can't hold me forever!" she snarles. The gem around her neck begins to glow a little. She snarls at it. "Damn bitch!" she growls, trying to work her arm loose, the one held by his weak arm.
Ronin twists sideways around Korunue, wrapping his arm around behind her back and using it to hold her weak arm, using his body to hold her other arm. "You're not getting away." he says firmly
Korunue growls, biting through the string that held the gem on. It fell to the ground and the glow died. She spits in his face. "You're hurting her." she says, nastily. "Her arm, remember?" she grins, knowing that he had to hold her or she'd get loose.
Ronin snarls back. "She's tough, she can take a little pain. Especially if it means getting rid of you."
Kikyo growls. She doesn't struggle, instead leaving for the moment. Kor's eyes turned purple once more, and her ears drooped again. "see? you have to go far away so she can't kill you... or kill me. She won't leave us alone...."
Ronin holds Korunue tight. "I'm not leaving you Kor, and that's that." He says, giving her another kiss before Kikyo comes back. "Kor, I'm sory about hurting you like this, but I can't help it." he gives her another kiss and prays that Kikyo has gotten really tired.
Korunue slumps, kissing him back. "She'll be back... soon as you let me go, she will... I can feel her at the back of my mind... watching... waiting..." she closes her eyes gently, sighing. "I can't even fight her... she'll kill you...."
Ronin smirks at Korunue. "I won't let her kill me." he kisses her again, hping to get as many in as possible before Kikyo comes back. "Wonder how Kiky feels about all this kissing anyways" he says with a grin.
Korunue smiles, a little, though only with her mouth, not her eyes. "she prolly hates it... She.... I saw part of her memories, Ronin... She loved my dad... when she got mad at Sinai before, that was when I saw some... " she shuts her eyes gently, kissing him again, trying not to dwell, to savor the moment.
Ronin grins wickedly at her. "Lets torture her a bit more then." he says kissing her hard.
Korunue smiles, "Revenge is so sweet" she says, echoing Kikyo's words in mockary. She kisses him back.
Ronin grins and laughs. "Yes it is." he kisses her again. "This is good revenge after all."
Ali Cia appears, looking around in hopes of spotting the trouble after being sent there by her "master," Melody.
Ali rushes forward and tries to pull Ronin off. "What the hell is going on here?!" she demands, venom in her voice.
Korunue says nothing, looking down, ears drooping. "She'll come back... she will... please, save yourself... any prey for her... you too, kind stranger. I beg of you, go far from here, before...."she murmers.
Ronin shrugs Ali off "Damn it whatever you are. She's been possesed and Kiky has backed off for a moment, she could come back at any second." he say the Kiky part with a little smirk.
"What?" It is obvious that Ali has no clue what's going on.
Korunue looks scared. "Go on, go!" She struggles a little. "She'll be back... you can't hold me forever.... and... when you DO have to let go, or one of us starves to death..." she shudders, a single tear falling. "please.... for me..."
"What exactly is the situation?" Ali demands, growing impatient.
Ronin shakes his head at Korunue. "I'm not going." He glances over at Ali "She's possessed, can't you get that through your skull?" he quickly kisses Korunue again, even in front of the stranger "I'm not going."
Ali hums. "Well, then.. You may let go, I'll hold her."
Ronin shoots the stranger a funny look. "And just how will you hold her?"
"In a way that won't endanger her wellbeing, but she won't be able to get away."
Korunue turns her head away so he can't kiss her anymore. "Go! Please... if you love me... no, forget I said that." she says, quickly, lest the same result happen as before... fresh pain... she sighs. "please." she whispers, softly.
Ronin peers intently at the stranger, lets see you try then." He turns back to Korunue. "I'm not going, now stop telling me to."
Ali gestures, the air seeming to solidify around them both, but not really pressing in. It is like an invisable "straightjacket," though it is more gentle and won't allow movement.
Korunue slumps. "please... I can't... I can't fight her... who knows what her powers can do to you... " the tears start flowing again, hard. "please... I love you... I don't want you to get hurt...."
"Don't worry, I can take care of it... and it's hard to hurt me." With that, Ali disappears as her perception moves to what is going on inside.
Ronin holds Kor straight up. "Listen to me!" he growls. "I love you too, but I can't have you giving in like this." he relaxes his grip, but stays at his ready, preparing for Kikyo to attempt to take over again. "Kor, her powers can't keep me away in the end, she gets tired too easily."
Korunue looks down. "She can kill you... she can... I felt her power... It's not giving in. I can't fight with you in reach... if you leave... she may kill me off, but at least I'd fight, some..."
Ronin simply stares at Korunue. "Kor...."
Ali is attempting to make contact with the spirit by entering Kor's body in a "harmless posession"
Korunue shuts her eyes. "please... I don't want you getting hurt... she can't hurt you if you're not here... she'll be back, soon as she realizes i'm free, and I dare not hide it for long... you are faster than I..." she murmers to Ronin, tears leaking from her tightly-closed eyes.
Ali had Kor trapped in a grip of "solidified air" as she tried to find the invading spirit herself. She is out of sight, so the only evidence she's there is the grip she keeps around the woman.
Ronin shakes his head at Korunue. "I told you I'm not going anywhere."
Korunue sobs openly. "Oh, Ronin..." Then, she hears a strict mental instruction: "get mad. NOW. Or I use my own powers to kill him." ropes sneak out from behind the tree to tie him to it, as she commands Korunue. Korunue immediatly mouths "Run!" and begins to think of Demona...
Ronin stands up in front of Korunue. "I told you, I'm not going anywhere." he says firmly. Stepping up to her he places a hand on her shoulder.
Ali's still searching for the spirit, at least a concentration of it that she can talk to.
Korunue begins to glow, purple, then her eyes snap open. They are brown, not the normal purple. She smirks, her tears suddanly ceasing. She sends a blast of Kor's miko powers at Ronin, noting how much was left.... Kor had a lot of potential, enough to keep even Kikyo away if she learned to use it. Alas, she'd be dead long before she even thought of it...
Ronin grips onto Korunue's shoulder tight as the wave hits him. He smirks and doesn't let go. Instead, he puts a leg around hers again, locking himself into place. "I'm not going anywhere."
Korunue smacks him across the face with the back of her hand. "I hope you said goodbye to your little girlfriend... you'll never see her again. A deep sleep will work for this body as well as letting her have it back... and it's mine now." She smirks, her voice sounding different, more... evil.
Ali gives up on trying on the body and begins searching around the mind, trying to find the spirit.
Ronin snarls at Korunue/Kikyo. "I'm not going anywhere. I guess you'll get to put up with me for the rest of your existence then."
Korunue shrugs, slightly, her movement hindered by the field that kept her in place. "So be it. I have eternity to get my revenge. You do not." She resents the intrusion into HER mind, as she thought of it, and snarled. She then put the body into a deep sleep (think Coma) and departed, the body slumping.
Ronin holds Korunue up again. "Damn it, why don't you stay around for a change Kiky?" He says, latching onto Korunue and sighing.
Ali is rather surprised and isn't quite sure if she was taken with the mind or left with the body..
Korunue , er, Kikyo, was NOT gone, however. She located the spirit chasing hers and directed a blast of pure hatred at it. "leave me BE!" echoed in the air, though no source was found of the words. A glimpse of a girl, running, between the trees- a girl with brown hair and eyes... then it was gone.
Ronin can't do much more than stand at Korunue's body and wait for Kikyo or Kor to return.
A young girl was glimpsed once more, sitting in a tree, sobbing, then she vanished. The more psychiclly aware might catch glimpses of a vortex, with the girl and a dog-boy kissing as they slowly descended into the depths of hell... But the hatred about the image was intense, as was the desire for revenge.
Ali observes silently, though she is unseen...
Ronin glances at Korunue's body. Did he possibly have enough time to retrieve his sword? He gives Korunue another looka dn quickly dashes over to where is katana lay. He carefully picks it up and slides it into his sheath. Looking around once more, he dashes back over to Korunue's body and resumes his guard.
Korunue does not move, Kikyo being occupied elsewhere. Hatred filled the air, like a poison, turning love to hate, slowly but surely, over the course of time, a long time, like 50 years or so... the promise that all couples would break up, the taste of dispair....
Ali_Cia could feel the anger, and it cut her deeply, but she said nothing.
Kikyo returns to Korunue's body,and her eyes snap open, not taking the moment to wake fully from the deep sleep. "Ya know, I can damage her pretty well by doing this... maybe even stop her heart" almost conversationally.
Ronin Snarls at Kikyo. "Listen Kiky, I know you can keep this up forever if you will, but whats the point? Why don't you just go away and possess someone else?"
Korunue growls at the nickname. "REVENGE! Her father will pay for his crimes... as will his no-good bastard daughter! She should be MINE, my daughter, not that damned bitch's, and she will pay for her mother's crimes!" she snarls, feeling herself succumb to anger and not caring.
"Listen, what's done is done and revenge does nothing. Everyone knows that." Ali says.
Ronin smirks at her. "Revenge?!?" he says with a laugh "I was after revenge for a while, up till a few days ago at least. It's such a pitiful state of mind tho. I would figure a spirit would know better myself."
Korunue snarls. "boy, you know NOTHING. He deserves hell. And so does his bastard daughter! He left me for my reincarnation. We promised to love always... not so different from you, in fact." She regains some shred of control and smirks. "Even if I left, you two will seperate after a while... she's too like her father to stay with you." she sneers.
Ronin leans in close to Kikyo. "Listen Kiky." he says firmly, but with a slight snarl. "You ahve no clue what I'm like do you? I'll follow Kor to hte ends of the earth if I have to, and nobody can stop me."
Korunue smirks. "That's what HE said. Then he fell in love with my reincarnation and forgot all about me." Her grin widens. "Or perhaps Kor will be the one to tire of you... it's in her blood, after all."
"Now just a minute, where I come from, I have been reincarnated many times, and it is still me. So, technically, he would have fallen in love with you anyway." Ali offers, helpfully.
Ronin snarls at Kikyo, he is bristling with anger and tries to speak several times, but the best he can manage is the rasped words of "You lie!"
Korunue looks at Ali, a glare in her eyes. "That bitch stole half my soul. She is most DEFINATLY not me. How could she be me? I'm dead. She was carrying this bitch." She looks at Ronin, smiling, a twisted, evil smile."Really now?" she asked, mockingly.
"Technically, my spirit's twin sister is also half of my soul, but I wouldn't get mad at her and want revenge." Ali mentions.
Ronin nods at Kikyo "Yes, really. Now, aren't you getting tired?" he studies her eyes, trying to see if he can find some vestige of Korunue. "Kor, I know you're in there, fight her."
Korunue snarls at Ali. "She STOLE it! And my life-mate, too!" She spits on the ground in disgust, then turns her attention to Ronin. "Hmph. She told you she won't fight, and she won't. She's a weakling. She won't last long in this world if she puts love above all else. I really am doing her a favor by killing her. She's begging me to, anyway." She smirks wickedly.
Ronin almost slaps Kikyo, but he remembers it is Korunue's body. "She will fight, you can't control her forever."
Korunue smirks. "She will not. I would kill you. It's easy." she says, evilly, intending to hurt him badly. "She wants to die... she said so. " It was true enough... and he knew it.
Ronin snarls at Korunue. "Listen up, she will fight, you won't kill me. Why do you insist on that." His ears droop a little as he hears the comment about Kor wnating to die. "You have a point...but she said she wouldn't die while I lived. So, what you gonna do about it?"
Kikyo smirks. "It's true. Either I kill you, or I get the body. She agreed, and she'll not go back on her promise. And she didn't promise anything about ME not killing her, after all." She smirks. "So I'll get free, use her body, and kill her. What are YOU going to do about it? You can dispose of her for me, if you like. Go ahead." She shifts a little in the force field, sticking her chest out, exposing her heart to his blade, smiking all the while. She had the upper hand and she knew it.
Ronin frowns at Korunue, his ears drooping more. He sheaths his sword and sighs. "I'm going to wait for you to get tired, you can't hold out forever."
Korunue smirks. "But when I get tired, I'll put the body into a deep sleep. You won't have Korunue back, so get used to it." She doesn't cackle, though she would like to.
"I want to make you a deal, whoever's in there... I challenge you to a battle... If you win, I will use my magic to give you your revenge, but if you lose, you will have to release Kor." Ali stands there, her hands crossed over her chest.
Korunue rolls her eyes. "And I would want to do that WHY?" she asks, all attitude. "Really, I can get my own revenge. A body just makes things easier."
Ronin sighs again, slumping, eyes downcast, shoulders hung, ears drooping. There isn't a thing he can do about his situation and he knows it.
"I happen to have a few powers that may be useful... not only can I locate certain energy signatures, but I know some deadly spells." Ali taunts.
Korunue snorts. "Why bother with killing spells, when I can drag him to hell? Really." She snorts, and struggles against the feild. "Oh, and Korunue has eaten naught but a slice of stale bread in two and a half days, about, and she was weak to begin with. I'm content to stay here until she starves.... but you may not like that outcome." Her trump card. She smirks, triumphant, knowing they'll HAVE to let her go.
"Heh, you obviously underestimate my abilities... do you even know where her father is?" Ali taunts.
Ronin looks at Ali and sighs. He wishes he could solve this problem the simple way, with his fists and sword. He looks up at Korunue's eyes once more. Wishing they would turn purple once more, as Ali continues. "Really... to have control of my powers would make revenge so sweet... you could torture them both to your heart's delight. You could bring them to near death, then heal them and torture all over again..."
Korunue snorts, looking into Kor's memory, pleasantly suprised. "He lives in town. Near here. A few minutes walk. A seconds thought for me." She is confidant. "And I can tie him up and torture him until he starves. That's good enough for me."
"I'm so weak at this point, seeing as I don't have a body at all, what could stop you? Come on, this offer is too good to pass up." Ali remarks.
Ronin glances over towards Ali. He thinks for a moment, weighing his choices. "Let her go."
Ali glances over, her gaze holding for an instant. She seems to be asking, "Are you sure?" Ali only keeps silent and eventually loosens her grip.
Korunue snorts. "The pup makes sense!" she smirks, leaping up. Her ropes snaked towards Ronin, attempting to tie his legs together, and she heads off towards the inn so she can stop wasting power calling Kor's arrows to her.
Ali vanishes.. and follows.
Ronin snarls and then roars out his anguish. He draws his katana and chops the ropes up. His ears are perked up now, scanning the area around him. He turns and quickly sprints away after Korunue, maybe he could get another chance to rescue Kor.
Korunue does NOT attempt to nourish her starved body. She has brown eyes and black hair, with black furry dog ears. She wears the remains of a straightjacket, with the arms cut off. Her hair is mussed, her eyes are sad and weary. An air of evil surrounds her as she heads in, eyeing the occupants suspiciously.
Ronin leaps from tree to tree, scouting far ahead of him with both his eyes and ears. He reaches the clearing of the inn, lands on the ground, sprints across the open ground and creeps up onto the porch. He slowly opens the door and peeks in, tryin to decide if he can senak up on Kor/Kikyo.
Ali was there, hanging around Kor's every move, though she couldn't be seen nor felt easily, unless someone could feel spirits nearby. She wanted every chance she could get to free Kor.
Korunue reaches into thin air, coming up with the Yuni (bamboo bow) and a quiver of bamboo arrows. She puts the quiver on her back, admiring the well-polished bow: Kor's. She stares at Ronin as he enters. "This is more like it, no?" she asks, grinning wickedly for the feel of the weapon in her hands. "Or do you have the balls to kill me, your beloved's body?" she smirked.
Ronin holds his Katana at the ready, he almost draws his wakizashi, but remembers the broken arm that had completely escaped his memory. He looks at Korunue and smirks "You can't use those, your arm is broken like mine."
Ali's voice could be heard in Ronin's head. "I am going to try an exorcism.. it will take a lot from me, but I think I can do it.."
Korunue smirks, an arrow glowing purple and fitting itself to the bow nicely, drawing itself back. "oh, can't I? Thank you for informing me. I think I'll ignore you now." she says smirking. She was running a tad low on power... a nice, long, comatose rest would fix that, though.
Ronin lets a low rumble escape from his throat. It steadily becomes louder as he becomes angrier. "Damn you, I'm gonna get you somehow."
Korunue smirks. "I highly doubt that." she says, offhandedly. She aims the bow at Ronin with her good arm. "Now, where were we?" she asks, casually. "Perhaps I should kill one of you and be done with it. Who needs a body after all?"
Ronin steps back from Korunue, but still holds his sword at ready. "Korunue needs hers." he says bluntly. "Why don't you give it back to her?" He gasps as he suddenly realizes something. He looks around for Ali, needing to send her after something.
Ali talks into Ronin's head. "I'm here. What do you want?"
Ronin jumps, at the voice, startled. He finally gathers his thoughts and thinks abck "Look, I just remembered something that could help Kor, can you go get it? it was a necklace, should be in the woods, at the base of that tree we were just at...there was soemthing special about it, something Kiky didn't like. Get it I'll try and keep her distracted."
Korunue smirks, oblivious to the mental conversation. "Not where she's going. Hell is quite nice... nice and warm." She cackles, aiming the bow at her own heart. "Yes... I don't need the body to get my revenge. I'll dispose of it, then." The arrow draws back...
Ronin roars and leaps towards Korunue, his sword flashing out towards the bow. Maybe he could manage to stop it in half, then it would be useless to Kor, but would save her in the end.
Ali flies away to fetch the necklace. It is clear that she is in a hurry and wants to be back before anything horrid happens.
Korunue jerks the bow away, accidentally firing it...but as it was being moved at the time of firing, the arrow lodges lower down, in her stomach. The wound begins to bleed heavily. "curses." she says. "Now look what you made me do? Now my body'll be weaker." She yawns, heading to the couch. "goodnight" she says, putting the body into a coma and departing.
Ali returns with the necklace in her hands. She keeps her eyes fixed on Kor, hoping that she got here in time. Of course, once she saw the arrow in Kor's stomach, she was shocked and said nothing at all.
Ronin growls at her, he stands amazeed tho as she calmly walks to the couch. He turns and takes the necklace from Ali. "Thank you, this should help immensly. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bandage her up." He walks over to Korunue and reaches into one of his pouches, pulling out a thick, jelly looking substance. He looks at it and then at the wound before nodding and setting to work.
Ali_Cia sighed deeply. "This situation is really sticky.. perhaps I should try an exorcism while she is asleep."
By the time Ronin is done, the arrow is pulled and the wound is covered in the jelly, which keeps it form bleeding. "That won't be necessary Ali, I think this necklace will be all we need. He places the necklace around Korunue's neck and stands back, waiting on the first results.
another good stopping point. REVIEW! PEES PEES PEES PEES? *puppy-dog eyes*
Demona: puke!
me: well, I didn't ASK you to take up residence in my head!
Demona: Well, Kirk sealed away my body, where else should I go?!?
me: HELL, maybe?! *goes insane from lack of reviews and kills Demona*
Demona: X.X
Din: *backs away slowly* I'm not getting in this...
Korunue frowns. "a vacation won't work... the problem is me... " a new thought hits her. "so I should be the one to do something about it." she kisses Ronin's cheek, whispering softly in his ear: "I love you, no matter what." Then she stands, though not without some effort. She closes her eyes, holding out her good arm to the side, bent at the elbow. "Jenny!" she calls, with her mind as well as her voice. "Come to me!"
Ronin gasps and reaches up with his good arm, clutching at Korunue's back. "Don't do that. I don't want that demon around you!"
It was too little too late. The large black bird landed on Kor's arm, and she smiled a little at it. She takes a deep breath, screwing up her courage. "Jenny... you have been a good friend to me, full of advice, always there when I was lonely. You always had advice to give me when I needed it." she begins, slowly, hesitantly. The bird preens itself, standing up straighter, looking proud, almost smirking.
Ronin growls and stands up, reaching for his dagger, and not finding one. He grumbles at himself as he realizes that Kor had tossed them away. He looks at the bird and bristles with anger. "Stupid demon." he says reaching towards the bird.
Korunue glances behind her, her look telling Ronin to stay put, to hold on, to trust her. "But..." she begins.
Ronin looks at Korunue and grimaces as he remembers his hurt arm. He snrals and backs off, cradlign his arm per usual.
Korunue takes a deep breath and starts again. "But. Your advice... I think I need to handle this myself from now on. Too much advice... well, I need to do some things myself, to learn some lessons the hard way I think. So, though I appreciate the comfort you lended me, I would like you to leave me alone, and not offer any more advice. Surely someone else can benifit from your advice more than I." With that she moves her arm straight up, to launch the bird into the air.
Ronin smiles a little as he hears Korunue get rid of the demon. "Good riddance." he mutters under his breath.
The bird, however, does NOT simply fly off, but instead flutters to the ground a foot or two away. At the speed of thought she is gone, replaced by a tall woman wearing a plain black dress. She has purple skin and red-brown hair, with large skin-covered batlike wings, that when spread must be at least a 6 ft wingspan. She had claws for finger- and toenails, and pointed teeth. She sneers. "Do you know who I am?" she asks, evilly.
Ronin looks up at the woman and blinks before sneering at her. "Thats easy. You're a demon bitch."
"jenny" growls, savagly. "I. am DEMONA! I answer to no mortal!" she screeches, spreading her massive wings. She ignores Ronin, sneering at Kor. "More than that, I am your mother's true reincarnation. SHE would never want a sissy sap like you for her reincarnation. She sent me to finish you off!" she sneers showing fangs for teeth.
Ronin looks at Demona and laughs. "You're no reincarnation of anything. Well maybe a succubus or something. But certainly not some human. Go find someone else to lie to and leave us alone."
Korunue turns white, then colors. The anger... she couldn't fight it any longer. She began to glow purple, snarling at Demona. "how. DARE. you. how DARE you bring my mother into this! Go away, and don't come back! Leave me alone!" she is screaming in rage by the end, and Demona looks slightly perplexed, not expecting THIS reaction. She sneers anyways. "Make me."
Ronin grins at Demona "Alright, if you insist." He says, drawing his sword and grinning. His arm didn't hurt so much now, and if he died protecting Kor, then it would be an honor. "You ready?" he sneers back at Demona.
Korunue pushes Ronin out of the way, furious, but knowing what her temper would do... she felt herself slipping... "how DARE YOU! Leave, and don't come back! Now! Leave now! NOW!" angrier and angrier, glowing more and more. Suddanly, her eyes glowed purple, then turned deep brown, and her cries became less angry, more cold and mocking. "how dare you. Leave me alone." She laughs, cruelly. "Really... I don't know whether to thank you or kill you." Her voice was different, too... a little... but familier still.
Ronin stumbles and trips over a treeroot, he glares at Korunue for a second, then changes his focus back on the demon.
Korunue smirks at the shocked look on Demona's face. "Thank you for doing my job, or kill you for doing it too well. So I'll do both." She snaps her fingers, and a bow and an arrow appears in her hand: Kor's Yuni, and one of her arrows. She bows, makeing a mockary of the Japanese guesture. "Domo Arigato." Then she loads the bow and aims it at Demona. "Goodbye." The string seemed to draw back of it's own accord, the bow held by Kor's good arm in place to aim with, her useless one by her side. The arrow fired itself, seemingly....
Ronin sits on the ground, perfectly stunned. Where had this Korunue come from? What happened to the old Korunue?
Demona suddanly dissapears, and the arrow hits a tree. A small black squirrel races off into the treetops. "Kor" turned to Ronin then, smirking. "As for you... well. Hmm... I really SHOULD kill you. That will secure my reign... yes, that will work nicely." She summons another arrow, and fiddles with it casually. "Or, I could torture you to death first... that will be fun."
Ronin struggles to his feet and glares at this new Kor. "And who might you be, and what have you done with Kor?" he says, sheathign hsi sword and reaching into a pouch. He pulls out a small root and sticks it in his mouth, chewing on it slowly. "And why might you kill me?"
Korunue drops the bow, lifting her good hand and sending a wave of Kor's own power at Ronin, intending to push him against a tree. She smirks as ropes come from nowhere, tying him to the tree. "Because. Then the bitch will stop fighting me, and I can torment her at my leasure. She will pay dearly for the sins of her father!" She seems rather upset.
Ronin grunts as he is tied to the tree. He struggles and twists, grimacing as his ribs and arm catch against the ropes. glaring at Kor he snarls. "What have you done with her?" he doesn't give her time to answer and spits the juice in his mouth at her eyes. Trying to get the burnt marbu to hit her and blind her.
Korunue ducks the juice, then cackles. "Oh, a fiesty one. Try anthing else and I won't move. Go ahead, kill your precious Korunue. See if I care. I can find someone else to torment..." she does not seem to notice the juice hit her back. It burnt, but she didn't care. At all. If she even felt it. She smirks, using some of her own dead miko powers to try and coax his own sword from his sheath to her hand.
(a/n- Guess who stole Korunue's body? =) )
Ronin roars at her. "Let her go! Let her go! KOR!!!!" he screams thrashing again. Not caring about his arm or ribs. "Oh hell no, not my sword." he says, moving his broken arm over it as best he can. He knows he couldnt hold it if she really wanted it, but he can try.
Kikyo/Korunue tugs harder with her power, taking the sword in her good hand. She tests it, feeling the weight of it, then smirks and attempts a kick to Ronin's groin to shut him up. "As if anything you say will make the slightest difference to me. She won't fight me if you're dead." she says, cackling.
Ronin twists and growls, Kor's kick catching his thigh. "Bitch." he says spitting at her again, using the other half of the root still in his mouth.
Kikyo bows her head, burning the top of her head. She laughs. "that's not nice. I need those eyes. And so does Korunue. Or have you forgotten her?" she backs away, hefting the sword. She smirks, then her grin falters. She frowns. "What..." then laughs again. "How cute! The bitch wants to bargin her body for your freedom!" she laughs and laughs, an evil laugh. "How sweet. How futile."
Ronin starts twisting in his bonds. "KOR! Don't do it! It's not worth it Kor!" he says panting heavily and grimacing.
Kikyo cackles. "Oh, but it is. That's just what I want." she smirks. "Ah yes... I can get revenge so much easier with a body than without. And I can end up with her dead... or in an asylum... and STILL use her for revenge on her father! Oh, sweet vengance... do we have a deal, bitchling?" She waits for some mental response.
Ronin snarls and roars in rage. "Don't do it Kor!!!" he scareams. Struggling with the ropes he curses at himself, why had he let Kor throw his daggers away? If he had even one he could get lose....bt wait, maybe his claws, and teeth! He starts to law at the ropes with hsi good hand, and gnaw on the ropes as best he can. Slowly they start to fray.
Kikyo frowns at Ronin. "Fine. So be it. I don't need you're death anyway. Begone." With a wave of her hand she disperses the ropes, dissmissing him. She smirks, flipping up into a tree, rejoicing in the strength of her new body. And the peace... she couldn't maintain the body for long, but she'd get it tied up somewhere when she wasn't using it, to make sure Kor couldn't escape.
Ronin stumbles and looks around. He snarls and jumps after her. "GET BACK HERE!!!" he roars. Hopefully she would be unused to the new body and unsure how to use it completely, besides Kor is weaker than him and not near as fast.
Kikyo wonders what Ronin could do to her without hurting Kor, and comes up with nothing. Well, the deal was to let him go... no! the deal was not to kill him! So she could knock him out and torture him until he killed himself... She ignored the feeble protests from the back of her mind and came to a halt in a clearing, Ronin's sword in hand.
Ronin leaps after Kor. He stops when she does, himself still well away from the clearing. This is not a time to approach head on. Sliently he crawls around in the trees, making his way behind her. He studies her for a second, hoping she hadnt heard him and then leaps, aiming to tackle her and trap her in his arms.
Korunue hears something... but thinks it to be a squirrel. It had been so long since she had been with a youkai... she is then taken by suprise, as he tackled her from behind. The nearness of him, the tackling... reminded her of her days of being alive... she deferred to Kor's reflexes and cried silently, letting tears fall for both of them.
Ronin wraps an arm firmly around Kor's waist, pinning her good arm down, his legs wrap around hers too. "Hehe, you can't keep this up forever, whoever you are. So why don't you just give up and let Kor come back out?"
Korunue says nothing, just sobbing. She decides to toy with his emotions a little... she won't let Kor out, even a little, or she'd lose her grip on her... but she can act like Kor enough to hurt him. She searches through Kor's memories to find out what her voice sounded like so she can try and emulate it.
Ronin squeezes Kor tighter, not letting her move. "LET HER OUT!" he orders.
Korunue sobs harder, convinced she has the voice right, and tries her hand at voice mimicry. "Don't!" she cries, sounding almost exactly like Korunue... perhaps like Kor if she was under major stress... she tries a little more, not wanting to push it. "Ronin... please...." THAT should tug on his heartstrings a little.
Ronin releases his grip a little, just a little. "Kor?" he asks hesitantly "Kor, is that you?"
Korunue sniffles, turning her head away. She says nothing, not wanting to push it. She just sobs, Kikyo's tears as much as Korunue's.
Ronin tightens his grip again. "I said, let her go!" he snarls firmly. "You can't fool me trying to act like Kor."
"So keep her here for eternity. I don't feel the pain, though you can bet she does. Anything you do to me will only hurt her. And she knows if she fights me, I'll kill you. So she's mercifully silent: her cries were annoying me." Her voice changes to a mockary of Kor's: "Oh, don't hurt him, please, leave him alone, take me instead." it changes back. "Pathetic."
Sinai is walking slowly through the forest, trying to find Korunue and Ronin, hoping they're okay, having watched them through the night, but having had to go home and sleep too.
Ronin growls, low and deep. "I can lay here like this for longer than Kor's body can hold out. Besides she can take a little pain. She's part youkai isn't she?"
Sinai hears Ronin, and walks toward him, wondering what's going on...She finds him gripping Korunue in a tight embrace, holding her down, keeping her from moving. " What's going on?" She doesn't like the look of this...
Kikyo shrugs, or tries to. "Fine. So hold me here until something breaks. I think I'll take a snooze. Wake me when you come to your senses." She puts the body in a coma, so that Kor won't be able to take it back, and waits for Ronin to cave. In the meantime, being disembodied once more, she checks on a few other people at the same time, mainly Inu and Sinai. They interested her.
Sinai is standing over the two now, not really glaring at Ronin, but is certainly looking for an explanation
` Ronin shakes Korunue. "Kor...? KOR?!?" he says, becoming frantic. He releases her from his grip and loks up at Sinai. "She...she was possessed, then she attacked me. I just now caught her and was holding her. Waiting for her to let Kor come back. But now I don't know what she's done." He says, starting to cry again, leaning over Kor's body and staring at her.
Sinai kneels down, and places a hand on her, checking her pulse. "She's asleep, in a coma, or something..."
Korunue wakes suddanly, using some of Kor's (usually dormant) miko powers to send a wave at both of them, intending to knock them back. At the same time, she backflips into a crouch, then darts a safe distence away, cackling.
Sinai's eyes widen, and watch her run away, but she quickly follows, not liking this one bit.
Ronin falls over, quite easily. He growls and struggles to his feet. "Damn you, you bitch!" he screams immediately giving chase.
Sinai leaps around trees, calling upon her lycanthrope abilities to do so, running fast, trying to catch up with her, seeing her a little ways ahead of her, a deep-set frown on her face, but is silent.
Korunue grabs the sword she dropped and pulls it on them, turning. She sends another wave, intending to push both of them against trees where her ropes will tie them securely once more. She smirks. "go ahead... kill me. Or should I say, kill Korunue. Or don't you value her life?"
Sinai leaps to the side, and tries to tackle her, hearing the words, but doesn't intend to kill her. "I willna."
Ronin is in mid leap, trying another tackle when the wave catches him, it throws him to the ground and he skids backwards on his stomach. Only stopping when his feet touch some tree roots.
Kikyo watches as the ropes tie to his ankles and to the tree roots. They then creep down from the branches to tie around his arms, jerking upward to hold him suspended in a voulnerable position. She drops into a roll, holding the sword straight out to the side, and turns on Sinai, bringing the sword in front of her. "A pity... I have no such reservations."
Ronin groans as he is raised up. His arm feeling like it is on fire. He screams at Korunue, his words unintelligible.
Sinai pulls her sword out from it's sheath at her side, and glares at her. "I willna kill ye, but by God, I will get you out of her...somehow." She stands at ready, in a defensive position, waiting for her to strike. "I care about her dearly. I willna let her go gently intae tha' good night like you want her tae."
Ronin pulls against the ropes with his good arm. "Damn you, whoever you are!" he screams at her, jerking as hard as he can.
Sinai realizes suddenly who it is. "Kikyo...I know who ye are...Korunue warned m' about ye... hen she and I had first met, she had told me about ye...She mentioned your name once, I believe, but it stuck in m' head..." She frowns deeply. "I'm glad it did, or I would ha' been as confused as Ronin o'er there."
Korunue smirks. "Quietly? No. Painfully. I want her death to be long, and slow, and agonizing... like your own." She tries once more to force her against a tree. She seems a bit shocked to hear her name spoken aloud. "Kikyo... that was my name, once, perhaps... but now it is as wind to a rock. It is meaningless. I live... for revenge." She smirks on revenge, intensifying the blast.
Sinai leaps away again. "Why? What revenge? Who must ye avenge?" She actually sympathizes with her, knowing what it is like to want revenge.
Ronin groans and gives the ropes a few more tugs. "Kikyo...." he snorts still trying to get loose.
Korunue scowls. "Her father... that damned Hanyou. how DARE he choose my reincarnation over me? he SWORE eternal love... and that damned bitch with my soul. She's dead, so I settle for her daughter. As for you..." her anger subsides once more as she turns to Ronin, sending more ropes to increase the hold. "How best to torture without killing... an interesting project..."
Ronin simply stares at her and spits at her once more, too bad he was out of reachable poison.
"Maybe it's because you're so bitter.." Sinai says.
Korunue narrows her eyes at Sinai. "You try it, and tell me who's to blame!" She rushes her, sword to the side, pointed down. She brings it up in a diagonal strike, running at Sinai, intending to take her head off in one swoop.
Sinai looks at her, still holding up her sword, and defends against it with a metallic crack/clang of her own sword, but looks sad suddenly. "I know how it must feel. My Beloved betrayed m'. I had trusted him...told him I was sorry for what I had done, and he told me it was in the past, that he wasna angry...Said he loved m'...then he killed m' wi' his own hands."
Ronin hangs his head and is silent as Sinai finishes: "But I willna let you destroy Korunue, or her Beloved."
Korunue scowls, pulling back. She glances at Ronin, wanting to torment him, to make him suffer, but knows this one will be more trouble. Better to finish this now.
Sinai growls lowly at her, and slices at her, trying to corner or move her toward Ronin, wanting to break his confinements.
Korunue blocks with Ronin's sword, then holds it still while kicking viciously out with her left foot. She also shoves with Kor's power, saving her own. A hard shove, intending with the kick and the shove to knock her against a tree to tie her up.
Sinai grunts, but digs her heels in, bracing against it, using her strength, and grabs her leg, pulling at her.
Korunue slips, thudding against the ground painfully, though she felt it not. She lifted the sword straight up above her chest. "I'll kill her." she threatens, a little scared but not showing it. "Won't hurt me one bit." she sneers. "though I can't say the same for Korunue, nor for Ronin."
Ronin grunts and doesnt appear to notice what is happening. He seems to be hanging limply by the ropes now.
Sinai grabs the handle of the sword, and tries to pull it away, at an angle so it won't plunge back down toward her, a look of utter anger and fury in her face. "Threaten all ye want. Willna d' ye
ana good."
Korunue kicks upwards at Sinai, using her momentum to get to her feet, tugging at the sword, growling a little.She jerked hard. "Then don't fight me. Take a lesson from sir macho over there." she jerks her head towards him. "Or I could always re-break her arm with my bare hands and let her bleed to death..." she smirks.
Sinai snarls, her eyes bleeding from her blue eyes to a glowing red, showing how angry she was, holding her sword in both hands. "You know ye would pass out after a while. And I wouldna allow tha' tae happen."
Korunue lets go of Ronin's sword, heading over to where he lay limp. "now, he has the right idea. Good boy. It won't save you, though... nor her. You're display earlier sealed your fate." She aimed another kick at his groin. "You could take a lesson from him, girlie." she sneers at Sinai over her shoulder. Ronin groans.
Korunue frowns, as he hangs limp in front of her. She growls softly, wanting more, almost... feeling SORRY for him! She punched him in the gut, HARD, snarling in his face and spitting in it. Then she takes his other sword and holds it at the ready.
Ronin grunts, but doesn't flinch or make any other movements for Kiky's enjoyment.
Korunue snarles, infuriated. "Damn you, react! Beg, plead, cry, scream, beg for mercy, for death, do SOMETHING!" she growls, half under her breath. She raises her right hand to slap him... and ends up stroking his cheek with one claw, a very intamate youkai guesture. She snarls and slaps him as soon as she realizes what she's doing.
Ronin turns his head with the slap and then turns back to look at her, his eyes boring holes straight into her.
"Kiky" smirks. "Oh, so THAT gets a response from mr. give-up. 'Twon't save you, though." her eyes ripple and flash a little. "From torture, I mean. I'll uphold my end of the bargain... " she smirks, and her eyes return to normal brown. She stifles a small yawn.
Ronin slowly grins at her "You can't control her much longer can you? She's struggling with you isn't she?" he says, starting to laugh at her. "You're gonna lose out in the end, you can't win!" he says, laughing hard at her now.
Kikyo smirks. "No. I shall win." She yawns once more. "But I am getting weary... " TO dash his hope, she heads to a tree a few feet away, facing Ronin, and leaps straight up in a flashy display, ropes grabbing her ankles and wrists and lashing her in tightly, tighter even than Ronin was in. Her eyes closed, and she slumped.
Ronin yells after her "You can't win!" and laughs a little more, slowly letting the laugh drift off and die.
Korunue's eyes flutter a little, but she keeps them half-shut, so he can't see that they are purple. She remains silent, half there, ready to yeild to Kikyo when she returns, slumping in her bindings, though her arm HURT. She didn't seem to notice.
Ronin sighs as he watches Korunue. "Aww Kor, You're stronger than this, why don't you fight her?" He says, tugging on the ropes again with his good arm...hmm, maybe if he pulled hard enough, he could break the branch...
Korunue takes a deep breath, looking at him. "Ronin... if you can get loose... she'll let you go eventually.... you need to leave, to run, far, far away... if I can escape without her killing you, i'll come find you... but you need to be safe..." each word is an effort as her heart silently breaks, knowing she won't be able to get free.
Ronin smirks a little "Kor, what in the world makes you think I'd leave you behind? If I get loose, you're coming with me." He says, steeling himself to tug on the branch. HE clnches his teeth and pulls, grunting. Slowly the branch starts to give, then snap, but Ronin runs out of energy before he completely breaks it.
Korunue bites her lip. "Don't... listen, either save yourself or kill me... there's no other way! She'll come back... she'll torture you... she can find me no matter where I go!" she looks frantic, eyes wide, not struggling at all.
Ronin grunts and tugs again, the branch cracking more. Finally it gives away and comes crashing down. he quickly sets to work untieing himself. "Kor, you're coming with me and thats final." he says, clawing at the ropes till they come loose. He runs over to Korunue and picks up his sword, cutting her bonds. "Lets go Kor, before old Kiky comes back."
Korunue stands back, against the tree, eyes wide. "no... Ronin... go, run.... if I come, she'll kill you... she noticed... RUN!" she screams, her eyes flashing brown. She stifles a scream, shutting her eyes tightly, biting her lower lip.
Ronin snarls and sheaths his sword, pushing himself up against Korunue he wraps his arms around her, pinning her against the tree. "Well if she comes back then I'd much rather be stuck like this, cause I'm not leaving you behind. "He says, giving her a kiss.
Korunue kisses him, then suddanly stops, eyes openening. They were brown. She snorts. "Love. Feh." She sends a blast of purple power his direction, to try and shake him off.
Ronin clenches tight to Korunue/Kikyo, if he was gonna go flying, then she was going with him.
Korunue snarles in his face. "you can't hold me forever!" she snarles. The gem around her neck begins to glow a little. She snarls at it. "Damn bitch!" she growls, trying to work her arm loose, the one held by his weak arm.
Ronin twists sideways around Korunue, wrapping his arm around behind her back and using it to hold her weak arm, using his body to hold her other arm. "You're not getting away." he says firmly
Korunue growls, biting through the string that held the gem on. It fell to the ground and the glow died. She spits in his face. "You're hurting her." she says, nastily. "Her arm, remember?" she grins, knowing that he had to hold her or she'd get loose.
Ronin snarls back. "She's tough, she can take a little pain. Especially if it means getting rid of you."
Kikyo growls. She doesn't struggle, instead leaving for the moment. Kor's eyes turned purple once more, and her ears drooped again. "see? you have to go far away so she can't kill you... or kill me. She won't leave us alone...."
Ronin holds Korunue tight. "I'm not leaving you Kor, and that's that." He says, giving her another kiss before Kikyo comes back. "Kor, I'm sory about hurting you like this, but I can't help it." he gives her another kiss and prays that Kikyo has gotten really tired.
Korunue slumps, kissing him back. "She'll be back... soon as you let me go, she will... I can feel her at the back of my mind... watching... waiting..." she closes her eyes gently, sighing. "I can't even fight her... she'll kill you...."
Ronin smirks at Korunue. "I won't let her kill me." he kisses her again, hping to get as many in as possible before Kikyo comes back. "Wonder how Kiky feels about all this kissing anyways" he says with a grin.
Korunue smiles, a little, though only with her mouth, not her eyes. "she prolly hates it... She.... I saw part of her memories, Ronin... She loved my dad... when she got mad at Sinai before, that was when I saw some... " she shuts her eyes gently, kissing him again, trying not to dwell, to savor the moment.
Ronin grins wickedly at her. "Lets torture her a bit more then." he says kissing her hard.
Korunue smiles, "Revenge is so sweet" she says, echoing Kikyo's words in mockary. She kisses him back.
Ronin grins and laughs. "Yes it is." he kisses her again. "This is good revenge after all."
Ali Cia appears, looking around in hopes of spotting the trouble after being sent there by her "master," Melody.
Ali rushes forward and tries to pull Ronin off. "What the hell is going on here?!" she demands, venom in her voice.
Korunue says nothing, looking down, ears drooping. "She'll come back... she will... please, save yourself... any prey for her... you too, kind stranger. I beg of you, go far from here, before...."she murmers.
Ronin shrugs Ali off "Damn it whatever you are. She's been possesed and Kiky has backed off for a moment, she could come back at any second." he say the Kiky part with a little smirk.
"What?" It is obvious that Ali has no clue what's going on.
Korunue looks scared. "Go on, go!" She struggles a little. "She'll be back... you can't hold me forever.... and... when you DO have to let go, or one of us starves to death..." she shudders, a single tear falling. "please.... for me..."
"What exactly is the situation?" Ali demands, growing impatient.
Ronin shakes his head at Korunue. "I'm not going." He glances over at Ali "She's possessed, can't you get that through your skull?" he quickly kisses Korunue again, even in front of the stranger "I'm not going."
Ali hums. "Well, then.. You may let go, I'll hold her."
Ronin shoots the stranger a funny look. "And just how will you hold her?"
"In a way that won't endanger her wellbeing, but she won't be able to get away."
Korunue turns her head away so he can't kiss her anymore. "Go! Please... if you love me... no, forget I said that." she says, quickly, lest the same result happen as before... fresh pain... she sighs. "please." she whispers, softly.
Ronin peers intently at the stranger, lets see you try then." He turns back to Korunue. "I'm not going, now stop telling me to."
Ali gestures, the air seeming to solidify around them both, but not really pressing in. It is like an invisable "straightjacket," though it is more gentle and won't allow movement.
Korunue slumps. "please... I can't... I can't fight her... who knows what her powers can do to you... " the tears start flowing again, hard. "please... I love you... I don't want you to get hurt...."
"Don't worry, I can take care of it... and it's hard to hurt me." With that, Ali disappears as her perception moves to what is going on inside.
Ronin holds Kor straight up. "Listen to me!" he growls. "I love you too, but I can't have you giving in like this." he relaxes his grip, but stays at his ready, preparing for Kikyo to attempt to take over again. "Kor, her powers can't keep me away in the end, she gets tired too easily."
Korunue looks down. "She can kill you... she can... I felt her power... It's not giving in. I can't fight with you in reach... if you leave... she may kill me off, but at least I'd fight, some..."
Ronin simply stares at Korunue. "Kor...."
Ali is attempting to make contact with the spirit by entering Kor's body in a "harmless posession"
Korunue shuts her eyes. "please... I don't want you getting hurt... she can't hurt you if you're not here... she'll be back, soon as she realizes i'm free, and I dare not hide it for long... you are faster than I..." she murmers to Ronin, tears leaking from her tightly-closed eyes.
Ali had Kor trapped in a grip of "solidified air" as she tried to find the invading spirit herself. She is out of sight, so the only evidence she's there is the grip she keeps around the woman.
Ronin shakes his head at Korunue. "I told you I'm not going anywhere."
Korunue sobs openly. "Oh, Ronin..." Then, she hears a strict mental instruction: "get mad. NOW. Or I use my own powers to kill him." ropes sneak out from behind the tree to tie him to it, as she commands Korunue. Korunue immediatly mouths "Run!" and begins to think of Demona...
Ronin stands up in front of Korunue. "I told you, I'm not going anywhere." he says firmly. Stepping up to her he places a hand on her shoulder.
Ali's still searching for the spirit, at least a concentration of it that she can talk to.
Korunue begins to glow, purple, then her eyes snap open. They are brown, not the normal purple. She smirks, her tears suddanly ceasing. She sends a blast of Kor's miko powers at Ronin, noting how much was left.... Kor had a lot of potential, enough to keep even Kikyo away if she learned to use it. Alas, she'd be dead long before she even thought of it...
Ronin grips onto Korunue's shoulder tight as the wave hits him. He smirks and doesn't let go. Instead, he puts a leg around hers again, locking himself into place. "I'm not going anywhere."
Korunue smacks him across the face with the back of her hand. "I hope you said goodbye to your little girlfriend... you'll never see her again. A deep sleep will work for this body as well as letting her have it back... and it's mine now." She smirks, her voice sounding different, more... evil.
Ali gives up on trying on the body and begins searching around the mind, trying to find the spirit.
Ronin snarls at Korunue/Kikyo. "I'm not going anywhere. I guess you'll get to put up with me for the rest of your existence then."
Korunue shrugs, slightly, her movement hindered by the field that kept her in place. "So be it. I have eternity to get my revenge. You do not." She resents the intrusion into HER mind, as she thought of it, and snarled. She then put the body into a deep sleep (think Coma) and departed, the body slumping.
Ronin holds Korunue up again. "Damn it, why don't you stay around for a change Kiky?" He says, latching onto Korunue and sighing.
Ali is rather surprised and isn't quite sure if she was taken with the mind or left with the body..
Korunue , er, Kikyo, was NOT gone, however. She located the spirit chasing hers and directed a blast of pure hatred at it. "leave me BE!" echoed in the air, though no source was found of the words. A glimpse of a girl, running, between the trees- a girl with brown hair and eyes... then it was gone.
Ronin can't do much more than stand at Korunue's body and wait for Kikyo or Kor to return.
A young girl was glimpsed once more, sitting in a tree, sobbing, then she vanished. The more psychiclly aware might catch glimpses of a vortex, with the girl and a dog-boy kissing as they slowly descended into the depths of hell... But the hatred about the image was intense, as was the desire for revenge.
Ali observes silently, though she is unseen...
Ronin glances at Korunue's body. Did he possibly have enough time to retrieve his sword? He gives Korunue another looka dn quickly dashes over to where is katana lay. He carefully picks it up and slides it into his sheath. Looking around once more, he dashes back over to Korunue's body and resumes his guard.
Korunue does not move, Kikyo being occupied elsewhere. Hatred filled the air, like a poison, turning love to hate, slowly but surely, over the course of time, a long time, like 50 years or so... the promise that all couples would break up, the taste of dispair....
Ali_Cia could feel the anger, and it cut her deeply, but she said nothing.
Kikyo returns to Korunue's body,and her eyes snap open, not taking the moment to wake fully from the deep sleep. "Ya know, I can damage her pretty well by doing this... maybe even stop her heart" almost conversationally.
Ronin Snarls at Kikyo. "Listen Kiky, I know you can keep this up forever if you will, but whats the point? Why don't you just go away and possess someone else?"
Korunue growls at the nickname. "REVENGE! Her father will pay for his crimes... as will his no-good bastard daughter! She should be MINE, my daughter, not that damned bitch's, and she will pay for her mother's crimes!" she snarls, feeling herself succumb to anger and not caring.
"Listen, what's done is done and revenge does nothing. Everyone knows that." Ali says.
Ronin smirks at her. "Revenge?!?" he says with a laugh "I was after revenge for a while, up till a few days ago at least. It's such a pitiful state of mind tho. I would figure a spirit would know better myself."
Korunue snarls. "boy, you know NOTHING. He deserves hell. And so does his bastard daughter! He left me for my reincarnation. We promised to love always... not so different from you, in fact." She regains some shred of control and smirks. "Even if I left, you two will seperate after a while... she's too like her father to stay with you." she sneers.
Ronin leans in close to Kikyo. "Listen Kiky." he says firmly, but with a slight snarl. "You ahve no clue what I'm like do you? I'll follow Kor to hte ends of the earth if I have to, and nobody can stop me."
Korunue smirks. "That's what HE said. Then he fell in love with my reincarnation and forgot all about me." Her grin widens. "Or perhaps Kor will be the one to tire of you... it's in her blood, after all."
"Now just a minute, where I come from, I have been reincarnated many times, and it is still me. So, technically, he would have fallen in love with you anyway." Ali offers, helpfully.
Ronin snarls at Kikyo, he is bristling with anger and tries to speak several times, but the best he can manage is the rasped words of "You lie!"
Korunue looks at Ali, a glare in her eyes. "That bitch stole half my soul. She is most DEFINATLY not me. How could she be me? I'm dead. She was carrying this bitch." She looks at Ronin, smiling, a twisted, evil smile."Really now?" she asked, mockingly.
"Technically, my spirit's twin sister is also half of my soul, but I wouldn't get mad at her and want revenge." Ali mentions.
Ronin nods at Kikyo "Yes, really. Now, aren't you getting tired?" he studies her eyes, trying to see if he can find some vestige of Korunue. "Kor, I know you're in there, fight her."
Korunue snarls at Ali. "She STOLE it! And my life-mate, too!" She spits on the ground in disgust, then turns her attention to Ronin. "Hmph. She told you she won't fight, and she won't. She's a weakling. She won't last long in this world if she puts love above all else. I really am doing her a favor by killing her. She's begging me to, anyway." She smirks wickedly.
Ronin almost slaps Kikyo, but he remembers it is Korunue's body. "She will fight, you can't control her forever."
Korunue smirks. "She will not. I would kill you. It's easy." she says, evilly, intending to hurt him badly. "She wants to die... she said so. " It was true enough... and he knew it.
Ronin snarls at Korunue. "Listen up, she will fight, you won't kill me. Why do you insist on that." His ears droop a little as he hears the comment about Kor wnating to die. "You have a point...but she said she wouldn't die while I lived. So, what you gonna do about it?"
Kikyo smirks. "It's true. Either I kill you, or I get the body. She agreed, and she'll not go back on her promise. And she didn't promise anything about ME not killing her, after all." She smirks. "So I'll get free, use her body, and kill her. What are YOU going to do about it? You can dispose of her for me, if you like. Go ahead." She shifts a little in the force field, sticking her chest out, exposing her heart to his blade, smiking all the while. She had the upper hand and she knew it.
Ronin frowns at Korunue, his ears drooping more. He sheaths his sword and sighs. "I'm going to wait for you to get tired, you can't hold out forever."
Korunue smirks. "But when I get tired, I'll put the body into a deep sleep. You won't have Korunue back, so get used to it." She doesn't cackle, though she would like to.
"I want to make you a deal, whoever's in there... I challenge you to a battle... If you win, I will use my magic to give you your revenge, but if you lose, you will have to release Kor." Ali stands there, her hands crossed over her chest.
Korunue rolls her eyes. "And I would want to do that WHY?" she asks, all attitude. "Really, I can get my own revenge. A body just makes things easier."
Ronin sighs again, slumping, eyes downcast, shoulders hung, ears drooping. There isn't a thing he can do about his situation and he knows it.
"I happen to have a few powers that may be useful... not only can I locate certain energy signatures, but I know some deadly spells." Ali taunts.
Korunue snorts. "Why bother with killing spells, when I can drag him to hell? Really." She snorts, and struggles against the feild. "Oh, and Korunue has eaten naught but a slice of stale bread in two and a half days, about, and she was weak to begin with. I'm content to stay here until she starves.... but you may not like that outcome." Her trump card. She smirks, triumphant, knowing they'll HAVE to let her go.
"Heh, you obviously underestimate my abilities... do you even know where her father is?" Ali taunts.
Ronin looks at Ali and sighs. He wishes he could solve this problem the simple way, with his fists and sword. He looks up at Korunue's eyes once more. Wishing they would turn purple once more, as Ali continues. "Really... to have control of my powers would make revenge so sweet... you could torture them both to your heart's delight. You could bring them to near death, then heal them and torture all over again..."
Korunue snorts, looking into Kor's memory, pleasantly suprised. "He lives in town. Near here. A few minutes walk. A seconds thought for me." She is confidant. "And I can tie him up and torture him until he starves. That's good enough for me."
"I'm so weak at this point, seeing as I don't have a body at all, what could stop you? Come on, this offer is too good to pass up." Ali remarks.
Ronin glances over towards Ali. He thinks for a moment, weighing his choices. "Let her go."
Ali glances over, her gaze holding for an instant. She seems to be asking, "Are you sure?" Ali only keeps silent and eventually loosens her grip.
Korunue snorts. "The pup makes sense!" she smirks, leaping up. Her ropes snaked towards Ronin, attempting to tie his legs together, and she heads off towards the inn so she can stop wasting power calling Kor's arrows to her.
Ali vanishes.. and follows.
Ronin snarls and then roars out his anguish. He draws his katana and chops the ropes up. His ears are perked up now, scanning the area around him. He turns and quickly sprints away after Korunue, maybe he could get another chance to rescue Kor.
Korunue does NOT attempt to nourish her starved body. She has brown eyes and black hair, with black furry dog ears. She wears the remains of a straightjacket, with the arms cut off. Her hair is mussed, her eyes are sad and weary. An air of evil surrounds her as she heads in, eyeing the occupants suspiciously.
Ronin leaps from tree to tree, scouting far ahead of him with both his eyes and ears. He reaches the clearing of the inn, lands on the ground, sprints across the open ground and creeps up onto the porch. He slowly opens the door and peeks in, tryin to decide if he can senak up on Kor/Kikyo.
Ali was there, hanging around Kor's every move, though she couldn't be seen nor felt easily, unless someone could feel spirits nearby. She wanted every chance she could get to free Kor.
Korunue reaches into thin air, coming up with the Yuni (bamboo bow) and a quiver of bamboo arrows. She puts the quiver on her back, admiring the well-polished bow: Kor's. She stares at Ronin as he enters. "This is more like it, no?" she asks, grinning wickedly for the feel of the weapon in her hands. "Or do you have the balls to kill me, your beloved's body?" she smirked.
Ronin holds his Katana at the ready, he almost draws his wakizashi, but remembers the broken arm that had completely escaped his memory. He looks at Korunue and smirks "You can't use those, your arm is broken like mine."
Ali's voice could be heard in Ronin's head. "I am going to try an exorcism.. it will take a lot from me, but I think I can do it.."
Korunue smirks, an arrow glowing purple and fitting itself to the bow nicely, drawing itself back. "oh, can't I? Thank you for informing me. I think I'll ignore you now." she says smirking. She was running a tad low on power... a nice, long, comatose rest would fix that, though.
Ronin lets a low rumble escape from his throat. It steadily becomes louder as he becomes angrier. "Damn you, I'm gonna get you somehow."
Korunue smirks. "I highly doubt that." she says, offhandedly. She aims the bow at Ronin with her good arm. "Now, where were we?" she asks, casually. "Perhaps I should kill one of you and be done with it. Who needs a body after all?"
Ronin steps back from Korunue, but still holds his sword at ready. "Korunue needs hers." he says bluntly. "Why don't you give it back to her?" He gasps as he suddenly realizes something. He looks around for Ali, needing to send her after something.
Ali talks into Ronin's head. "I'm here. What do you want?"
Ronin jumps, at the voice, startled. He finally gathers his thoughts and thinks abck "Look, I just remembered something that could help Kor, can you go get it? it was a necklace, should be in the woods, at the base of that tree we were just at...there was soemthing special about it, something Kiky didn't like. Get it I'll try and keep her distracted."
Korunue smirks, oblivious to the mental conversation. "Not where she's going. Hell is quite nice... nice and warm." She cackles, aiming the bow at her own heart. "Yes... I don't need the body to get my revenge. I'll dispose of it, then." The arrow draws back...
Ronin roars and leaps towards Korunue, his sword flashing out towards the bow. Maybe he could manage to stop it in half, then it would be useless to Kor, but would save her in the end.
Ali flies away to fetch the necklace. It is clear that she is in a hurry and wants to be back before anything horrid happens.
Korunue jerks the bow away, accidentally firing it...but as it was being moved at the time of firing, the arrow lodges lower down, in her stomach. The wound begins to bleed heavily. "curses." she says. "Now look what you made me do? Now my body'll be weaker." She yawns, heading to the couch. "goodnight" she says, putting the body into a coma and departing.
Ali returns with the necklace in her hands. She keeps her eyes fixed on Kor, hoping that she got here in time. Of course, once she saw the arrow in Kor's stomach, she was shocked and said nothing at all.
Ronin growls at her, he stands amazeed tho as she calmly walks to the couch. He turns and takes the necklace from Ali. "Thank you, this should help immensly. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bandage her up." He walks over to Korunue and reaches into one of his pouches, pulling out a thick, jelly looking substance. He looks at it and then at the wound before nodding and setting to work.
Ali_Cia sighed deeply. "This situation is really sticky.. perhaps I should try an exorcism while she is asleep."
By the time Ronin is done, the arrow is pulled and the wound is covered in the jelly, which keeps it form bleeding. "That won't be necessary Ali, I think this necklace will be all we need. He places the necklace around Korunue's neck and stands back, waiting on the first results.
another good stopping point. REVIEW! PEES PEES PEES PEES? *puppy-dog eyes*
Demona: puke!
me: well, I didn't ASK you to take up residence in my head!
Demona: Well, Kirk sealed away my body, where else should I go?!?
me: HELL, maybe?! *goes insane from lack of reviews and kills Demona*
Demona: X.X
Din: *backs away slowly* I'm not getting in this...